, 1887-07-28
COSTUMES OF VIENNA WOMEN.

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hand carts. Street cars won't stop for you.
Only stop at certain places. Indicated by
dgn post on track. The tub the universal
vessel to carry things in. Oval in shape.
One stave longer than the rest. So it can be
bound ON the carriers back. Carries all the
water up the six or seven pairs Of stone stairs
In the Vienna houses. Clean clothes ditto
from wash. Separate shops for brandy,
beer and wine. Peasant on q spree
carries green twig stuck In his hat
hand, to indicate to the Vienna public his
present mental and moral condition. Hacks
hung low the wheels. Drivers in uniform.
Everytbing's in uniform here. Fares low
Ten cents carries you to Dombach or Leopold.
stadt, suburban villages, five or six miles dis
tant. Emperor and empress are frequently
seen driving on the streets. No fuss all hats
go of as they go by. Soldiers everywhere, :,
sentries ditto, in q chronic condition of salut
ing officers Fleas abundant. Everybody
eats at the restaurant. Vienna Is al restau
| rant on the ground foor Little homo cooking
done. "Melange" and rolls are the uni
versal breakfast. "Melanger is half coffee
and hale hot milk, always brought you in
tall tumbler with big table spoon.
Living here very public If you hire a room
.hr chances nre You must pass through some.
body's bedroom 70 get 70 it, or have some one
pass through yours Female help, Indifferent
or obivious to gentlemen dodgers, come right
In Mt all hours and without knocking, when
on house duty
Stoves like monuments, nine feet high,
covered with porcelain. Furnace holds about
two quarts of coal. The rest is monument.
Handsome men, coed shapes, full chests,
ane bass voices. A pleasure to sit in the rail,
way stations and hear the officials in charge
call the trains. Handsome women ditto.
ly fIo CT, chnr I,,
or in the morning Nap at noon.
Gardens fIn of families diuing in open dir at
s p. m They go it til 9. Music, flowers,
statuary all about Eating not done at gulp.
More happiness to the square yard. News
papers small. Outside world disposed OF in
about twenty lines Lots OF small comic illus
treted papers. "I'rink halles" ON every COR
ner Round pngodas. Girl inside. No room for
more. Sells lemonade, orangeade, soda water
and other light foggy fluid. PEOPLE here al
ways swallowing something.
Elevator ut hotel. Big fuss over it. Two
men In uniform to run 1t. Pace, mile an hour
Beds all single Evtr ybody seems to sleep
single here. Que more led OH top of bed quilt
Very light, full of feathers, in green silk bag.
Barracks everywhere jixstories. Full Of
soldiers Soldiers everywhere. Drilling
everywhere. Drumming everywhere. Toot
ing everywhere Soldiers marching past no
tel at IN the morning Always getting
ready to kill somebody Same way all over
Europe. Never out Of sight Of bayonet.
Nations here awfully afraid of each other
Singular pumps. Very tall. Long, crooked,
iron handle. Reaches to the ground To-
bacco shops all run by government. Keep
stamps also. Invariable sign over door, TX.
K" king and Kaiser) The emperor does
all the tobacco business Not much tobacco
in their cigars Washed out. Prices OF
groceries ard dry goods always marked on
article in shop windows Helps one to learn
the language. Can read and translate as you
walk along.
Cultivated shade trees lay over anything I'm
America. Six rows, full grown, in some
streets, with walks underneath. Fountains
hcnches everywhere. Business streets all
shaded. not bare to sun like Broadway or
Fifth avenue. Bath houses five stories high.
Everybody here really washes at the bath
and not by the bed room wash basin. Went to
one. Girl cashier Took my money Turned
me over to another girl Black eyed. Good
looking. Showed me bath room. Went in with
me. Turned on water, hot and cold. Both of
us wait for tub to fill up. Wondered il she'd
ever leave. Strange country. Novel
customs. Tub fills up. Girl leaves.
Examine door. No lock. Took of
collar. Girl bursts in again. Brought
more towels And then aprons. Wondered
what they were for. Found out Inquired
of girl. What do you supposed To put on
one behind and the other before, and sit still in
while, after using the hot water, the girl
came back to turn on the cold. No handling
Of water by customer in Viennese bath. Girl
must do 1t all No such place as Vienna
known In Austria. Austrian name, Wien.
From the bit Of q river running through IL.
Danube river in rear Of city. Timber RATS
always passing. Miles and miles Of cultivated
pine forests In Austria Pass through them
bv rail-. No underbrush. Trees tall and
straight, BY tens Of thousands. r. II.